Just so's you know, I'm *still* not talking to you people.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:13 AM on December 29, 2006

Except just now.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:18 AM on December 29, 2006

oh, SNAP!
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 2:13 PM on January 24, 2005

I'd just like to say that, although I've only asked 13 questions total to AskMe (less than one a month on average), I got hit last week with the once-a-week rule. And it hurt. I'd like Matt to reconsider my previous suggestion to make the limit four-a-month instead of one-a-week.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 9:10 AM on January 17, 2005

I was gonna go until you used the word "Mefibrarians".
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:15 AM on January 13, 2005

he's not calling out the question, q, but an answer that has since been deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:12 AM on January 1, 2005

I guess Goatse.cx is high treason, but bitter snarks are not. Oh well.

He had me up until that. Until he can understand why, in the grown up world where people have jobs and mortgages, goatse isn't harmless fun, he shouldn't be here.

let him spend $5 on a new membership

That's no solution. If matt isn't banning people by ip (which I believe he is), he should be.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 1:51 PM on December 29, 2004

As a person in the grown-up world with mortgages, a job, employees, kids and pets ks’s act was wrong but jp’s comment was falling down roll on the floor funny.

What are you talking about? goatse could get me fired in an instant. I have bills to pay. goatse is super bad.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 2:32 PM on December 30, 2004

Has anything Farkish or fatty-bashing happened yet, fatass?

Does that comment count?
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 8:10 PM on December 23, 2004

This is the worst callout ever. The arrogance of people who a) think they can see the future and b) try to censor what passes for transgression in their mind before it even occurs is appalling.

Did rushmc just call someone arrogant?

a) You've been around here long enough to know what fat threads are almost invariably like. It's not "seeing the future", it's anticipating behavior based on past experience, and we do it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:46 AM on December 24, 2004

ugly attempt at being the thought police.

BOOGAHBOOGAH!!!!!
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:49 AM on December 24, 2004

WHAT DANELOPE SAID!!!
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 2:47 PM on December 20, 2004

It's like this:

You know how (in, say, Outlook) you can organize your email into little folders? I want to put all my mail mefi-related email into a folder called "Mefi", for example. I can do that with Outlook. Your request, xammerboy, is like asking everyone you know "whenever you send me email, please have it jump into my 'Mefi' folder, k thx by". Tabs happen on your end. Matt can't do anything about it.

Is that clear? Or... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 2:54 PM on December 20, 2004

jesus
polevaulting
christ
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 3:11 PM on December 20, 2004

Yeah, and Matt, please post on the preferences page that Mefi is not a first-person shooter or a bittorrent client. And all the other things you can't do with the site.

If you seriously hate people because they criticised you on a web site, you've got some hardcore issues m'friend.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:44 AM on December 21, 2004

If there were a feature allowing one to delete their own threads, I would have done this the minute I saw this had been discussed before.

Honestly, xammerboy, the problem isn't the thread itself, but the fact that, after people had already shown you the answer, you continued to be all indignant: "Did anyone read the question?" when, apparently, you hadn't read the answer. The question itself is reasonable if you don't understand the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:15 AM on December 21, 2004

The first thing I would do is upgrade to 1.0. Even if the buttons don't work for all users with .8, (or even anything <1.0) it wouldn't make sense for Matt to make a change to fix pre-release version of a browser, especially when the release version is available. (Which isn't a snark. I don't want to make another "hate" list.)
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:52 AM on December 21, 2004

Maybe four questions a month would be better than one a week? I seldom post questions there, but I'd have if I had two within five days and got shut out.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:25 AM on December 19, 2004

i think it deserves something more than personal attacks lie "this is shit"

Mudpuppie, that's not a personal attack. I understand that it's harsh, and if I had spent a lot of time on something, only to have mr_crash_davis call it names, I'd be offended too. (Actually, I wouldn't, but I can understand why you would.) But it's not a "personal" attack. It's an attack on some words you wrote on a web page. A personal attack is when I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:33 AM on December 18, 2004

You know, I'm really a nice, mostly intelligent person....

You sound like neither.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:22 AM on December 19, 2004

And Seth is wrong (because he overstates his case).

Seth is right. He just overstates his case. Just because Seth has been wrong many, many times in the past (too many to count, really. I mean, whew! Like, he's usually *wicked* wrong! How much "wrong" can one man carry? Just ask Seth.) doesn't mean he's always wrong. (Seth, I kid.) "Don't like it, ignore it" is horrible advice. Seth is dead-on with that.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:22 AM on December 16, 2004

Dude, gross. They're totally brother and sister.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 1:57 PM on December 15, 2004

wahfuckinwahfuckinwah
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 6:15 PM on December 14, 2004

Does anyone have a solution? I've been spending a little time thinking about it, but no ideas yet.

If only this site had a moderator...
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 3:44 PM on December 13, 2004

That's not a shiv.

And those aren't his ribs.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 2:05 PM on December 10, 2004

my cat's breath smells like my other cat's anus.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 8:03 AM on December 9, 2004

If nothing more, may this serve as "newbies - here's what not to do" - there's a zenlike satisfaction in that, I suppose.

god damn I like that attitude. Would that there were more of it around here.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:09 PM on December 9, 2004

Sorry, but it sucks that matt finally comments on the boyzone question and this is his answer.

Why does Matt have to comment on anything? This is why a self-governing community is better than a monarchy. Matt can't be everything to everyone. Stop looking to him for every answer.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:38 PM on December 8, 2004

I'm from the UK, and we've had a female prime minister.

That, sir, was no woman.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 5:36 PM on December 8, 2004

self appointed sanctimonious MeFi gods/censors

y'know, that line's been tossed around so much that people take it at face value. The fact is, they/we aren't "self-appointed". Matt designed this community to be self-policing. That was his vision for it. That doesn't mean he approves of all the snarking or piling on the newcomers. And if he doesn't like it, he's free to call out/suspend/ban anyone he thinks is consistently... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:27 AM on December 8, 2004

It's also considered -- what? polite? good form? correct? -- to link and tip the hat to the site from which you appropriated your FPP link: [A&L Daily] [The Morning News] [Fark], etc.

That practice is kinda deprecated these days, no? IMO, a tip of the hat is polite if you cribbed the link from your average shmuck blogger. That way s/he can get some traffic. But there's no need to credit larger sites like Fark.

I also want... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 9:23 AM on December 2, 2004

(Damn. That word "folks" was supposed to have [bushism] tags around it. I don't actually talk like that.)
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 8:04 AM on December 1, 2004

This is a little too "there goes the nieghorhood," for my taste.

This isn't about "there goes the neighborhood."

I welcome the new blood wholeheartedly. And I completely understand that people will make mistakes and it takes time to get acclimated to this place. All I'm saying is the new noobs will be different from the old noobs. They likely won't have any idea what they're getting into,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 9:38 AM on December 1, 2004

Well, before it was closed for a long time, membership was just like that -- people could happen by and sign up.

This is true, but the site didn't have the visibility it has today.

Plus, there are "security" risks. Does anyone remember the Camgirl Invasion of '01? Suppose it had be EL-JEE-EFF. Back then, even Dear Leader said "I'm glad the new user signups are off. I thought the invasion of the camgirls was a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:12 AM on December 1, 2004

(Actually, my first link there doesn't point to the camgirls incident, but something else. I can't find the camgirls thread(s).)
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:15 AM on December 1, 2004

(Here it is. I shut up now.)
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 10:17 AM on December 1, 2004

I haven't seen our buddy Jrun in quite some time,

Chicken/Egg. Matt jacked up the server a few weeks ago. Which is why he opened up signups.

the front page has compelling content,

the election's over
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:28 PM on December 1, 2004

I wonder how much of the reservations about newbies aren't based in the fear of being supplanted.

I don't know. Nothing is going to keep quonsar from being quonsar. There is a fear, though, that the character of this community--which is something else we've all worked to develop over several years--could go away. The site may have its flaws, but at least it's not livejournal.

Is this how the conservatives feel about teh gheys?
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:57 PM on December 1, 2004

Wait, am I the pedant? Cuz I really preferred being the sanctimonious guy if it's all the same to you...

I wanna be the conservative for a while. It looks like fun.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:11 PM on December 1, 2004

Account #3
jpoulos
I_Hate_Noobs

Aw man. So untrue. I ♥ the noobs. ♥ 'em , I do.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:09 PM on December 1, 2004

what quonsar said, but with even more snark.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:18 PM on December 1, 2004

You'd be surprised how many people don't understand the principle that something given accidentally to you is not automatically yours to keep.

You'd be surprised at how many people can't find Rhode Island on a map. "Where is Rhode Island?" is a bad question.

And btw, of all the crap-ass questions that make it to AskMe, you pick that one?

The difference between this one and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:21 PM on December 1, 2004

is his judgement
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:21 PM on December 1, 2004

Oh yeah, and f you and what you think is obvious.

I don't think people intentionally thought it was obvious just to piss people off. I think we thought it was obvious because we thought it was obvious. And so f yourself.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 1:44 PM on December 1, 2004

Don't waste Matt's time with a feature request when you can already do it.

I think the point is that Miguel wants to know this information about other people. One can't expect everyone to spontaneously put that info on their page. A new field would encourage people to do so.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 12:13 PM on November 30, 2004

So are we.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:59 AM on November 30, 2004

Let's go 249ers!
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:59 AM on November 30, 2004

ettiquette etiquette
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:37 AM on November 29, 2004

<aside>Did you know that the American Heritage recognizes netiquette?</aside>
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 7:38 AM on November 29, 2004

Meanwhile, banhammer.com is still available.
posted to MetaTalk by jpoulos at 8:54 AM on November 29, 2004